[Justin Kenny] Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:39:50 AM
Here's a 'Hmmmm' for ya...
For those of you who haven't learned much about me just yet, I drive transit buses for a living...needless to say, it's the kind of profession that puts me in touch with people from ALL walks, crawls, and runs of life; name the variety of individual you can think of, and odds are I've given them a ride SOMEWHERE. I mean...ffs....we have this regular rider who could EASILY pass as Charles Manson's twin feckin' brother....I shit you not.
Anyhoo....
I pick up some dude yesterday....and he had on this utterly dreadful striped shirt. And no...we're not talking about one of those snazzy, VERTICALLY pinstriped dress shirts you might see as part of a 3 piece suit ensemble...no sir...we're talking about the kind of striped shirt you'd see on one of those characters from the "Peanuts" gang, okay!? I'm talkin''bout...this shirt had stripes, horizontally designed...some 2" thick..and all different colors....this mutherfucker looked like a life-size pack of 'Fruit Stripe' gum. I mean...BEACH LOUNGE chairs have more cohesive striped designs than this!!!
Someone in the chats yesterday suspected (even if humorously so) that this cat was color-blind. But I don't know 'bout that....see....one needn't necessarily be color-blind to KNOW that you just DON'T wear shirts that LOOK like this, goddamn!!!
While I'm on the subject of color-blindness (and this is in NO way shape or form meant to tease or denigrade anyone here or elsewhere who may be as such), it's common knowledge that most folks who ARE color-blind know exactly which colors they cannot see. Whether they know or not what those colors truly look like may be another matter entirely...but if THEY see 'reds' as 'greens' (or, however it may appear to them), how does GREEN look to them? Moreover...if they've ever been told by a trusted soul that they just don't look good in a couple of colors they cannot see, and don't know the counterpart colors they actually DO see, does this extend the amount of time they'd spend in department stores? I must Google this....
I wonder too....given the aforementioned-- if there are people in this world who see in pastels.....
